EA pays $17k per player for Madden, so that's probably $20-$30 million to the NFLPA . I can imagine schools will likely give each conference to negotiate a flat rate for each team/player (just as they did for the team logos and uniforms). Even if they only pay half that for NCAA players, that comes out to $1,475 per Division 1 scholarship football player.
Yea, they'll do a group licensing deal or won't do it all. They arent negotiating with 10K individual players. However, players cant sign group licensing deals so that has to be the next shoe to drop
She is going to be making six figures very soon and eventually will make over a million with her social media following.
Agree. It will be the handful of guys who are preordained as legit Heisman candidates from high profile teams each preseason that will reap the greatest rewards by far. Kind of like the Olympics-only the top American athletes that medal in the high profile sports get any endorsement money. But every player everywhere will be trying to capitalize. As others have pointed out there will be complex issues for the players and their schools. The IRS will be watching closely. The schools have some new issues related to the concept of amateur athletics, conflict of interest, use of scholarship money, disparate treatment, licensing, etc etc etc. There will be conflict in state and federal laws.
I’m talking about money. Not free shoes and shit. Athletes at every school with a shoe contract already get that. This thing is about money. There’s not gonna be enough to go around for low to no profile players. Theyre already wearing your stuff from the contract with their school. Why pay them for anything?
I hadn't really considered the attraction (no pun intended) of sponsoring female non-revenue D1 athletes. This makes you wonder though if you'll see more of these athletes post provocative pictures like that golfer Paige Spiranac, who is like the golf version of Anna Kournikova.
This is going to benefit the upper 1 or 2% of college athletes. The stars with real national visibility (Heisman trophy candidates, etc) are going to have lots of opportunity (both locally and nationally). The vast majority of these kids who are now seeing potential dollar signs are going to be very disappointed when they learn that no one is paying the third string left tackle a dime for an appearance.
No idea, I read about it in one of the articles that hundreds of college athletes have already signed up for it and they had already had 500+ professional athletes on the App. Went to check the pricing, but you need to download the app to see and I don't care to be that specific. But the article says prices range from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars, I assume it's up to each individual athlete so who knows.
A couple of years ago there was a link to a website where someone could contract for Dave Wannestedt to call to wish a happy birthday. I don’t remember what the fee was, but there were pro athletes and former pros on the site too.
Yea that's Cameo.
I don’t think $50,000 would be worth the security risk for someone like him.
Exactly. I was planning on asking the city to change the name of my street to a Pitt recruit.
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They very well may, I don't know. What I do know is that a boycott is not "cancel culture', regardless of your attempt to spin it.
